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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to buy Clippers for $2 billion

AznAnarchy99 said:
Well Ballmer has been one of the main proponents of getting a team back to Seattle. I think he believes this is his chance.
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for $2B, he could have gotten ANY team to move to Seattle.
hell, for $2B, he could have created his own team and traded for the top 10 players in the NBA plus all the 1st round draft picks for next year.

hell, for $2B, he could have created something to compete with the NBA, complete with 20 teams.
 
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AznAnarchy99 said:
Well Ballmer has been one of the main proponents of getting a team back to Seattle. I think he believes this is his chance.
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Wait, what happened to the Supersonics? I seriously haven't followed NBA basketball since Jordan left the second time.
 
AznAnarchy99 said:
Well Ballmer has been one of the main proponents of getting a team back to Seattle. I think he believes this is his chance.
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He already said he wouldn't move the clippers to Seattle because they would lose most of their value. Also the NBA and owners will likely stipulate that to approve the purchase the team must remain in LA.

NFS4 the OKC Thunder are the former Sonics.
 
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/...ts-winning-bid-buy-clippers-according-sources

why not bid 1.61 billion?

a fuck you to larry ellison?
ESPN.com's Darren Rovell reported earlier Thursday that Ballmer's $2 billion bid was the highest submitted, topping bids from groups led by music mogul David Geffen ($1.6 billion) and L.A. investors Tony Ressler and Steve Karsh ($1.2 billion).

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Geffen's group also included Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Oprah Winfrey, as well as Guggenheim executives Todd Boehly and Mark Walter, Steve Jobs' widow Laurene Jobs, Steve Wynn's ex-wife Elaine Wynn, and Beats by Dre co-founder Jimmy Iovine.
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I have read its not a done deal YET, more like by the end of business tomorrow. Of course who knows which source is really correct.
 
Didn't the current owner pay like 15,000,000 for the team?

I'm sure that racist old fuck will be taught a lesson by making 1.985B off his investment! 10,000%!, nice!
 
BrunoPuntzJones said:
Didn't the current owner pay like 15,000,000 for the team?

I'm sure that racist old fuck will be taught a lesson by making 1.985B off his investment! 10,000%!, nice!
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He made a previously all but unknown team famous thus improving the brand and increasing the value. The (former?) girlfriend should ask for a cut since she did half the work. Makes you wonder if Dennis Rodman was a consultant to the deal?
 
So...

Expose racist owner->public outrage->public demands sale->NBA threatens to force sale->huge interest in sale->racist owner threatens to sue to block sale->even more interest in sale->way over priced->$$$racist owner$$$

Wait what?
 
Mark Cuban has been preaching the franchises are severely undervalued, and the bucks sale, which recently went for between $500m-$600m, should have been closer to $1B. If value is based on what someone is willing to pay for something (which it is), then he's been right.

The LA dodgers recently were sold for over $2b, which is partially why this team went for so much...location and lots of national and international marketing possibilities.
 
holy shit two billion dollars!

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